General FAQ

What Is Pulsation Audio?

Pulsation Audio is a brand that stands for creativity, a home for artists and a different approach to the artistic and musical area.

We want to share knowledge, help upcoming talents and put ideas into action. We believe in open and honest communication and the power of being humble, fair and helpful. That is why we want to build a community with like-minded people.

What Can Pulsation Audio Do For Me?

Pulsation Audio provides services regarding mixing, mastering, music production, recording as well as consulting in various musical fields.We provide a strong connection between labels and other musicians that can help you make the visions come true.

We are also a team of artists, dj’s, programmers and graphic designers. We provide workshops, livestreams, samples and projects and all sorts of usefull stuff for you.

Why Pulsation Audio?

We hope to be an inspiration by beeing honest and fair. We share our knowledge mostly for free and help you wherever we can.

Audio Services FAQ

What Is Mastering?

Mastering is done by the “Mastering engineer” and is considered as the last stage of work on a track (piece of music).The audio will be processed by the “Mastering engineer” to perceive perfect loudness and a good listening experience on different devices. We define “Loudness” as “integrated loudness (LUFS)“. The perfect loudness does also mean a comfortable loudness level for the “Mastering engineer”.

When done you will receive multiple files:

CD-Master File (wav, 16bit/44.1kHz)

Hi-Res Master File (wav, 24bit/96kHz)

FLAC file

320 kbp/s – MP3

(optional – DDP Image)

What Is Mixing?

Mixing is done by the “Mixing engineer” and is considered as balancing the audio files (stems) or the project files and its elements.This happens by a process called balancing in which loudness and frequencies of the single elements in the track are tweaked by using equalization and compression. Furthermore by working with stereo processing and dimensional tools like delay and reverb.

This also means that the mixing engineer provides his creative decisions to the mix. This may include distortion, compression and sorting out or adding elements. When done the “Client” will receive a final mix with some headroom (headroom is considered space before the signal gets into clipping) without limiting or dynamic processing on the master bus (except the mixing engineer feels like it is necessary) unless there is no other agreement.

What is sound design?

We hope to be an inspiration by beeing honest and fair. We share our knowledge mostly for free and help you wherever we can.

what is music production?

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what is a daw?

DAW stands for Digital Audio Workstation and is the program of choice for creating music and working with audio files as well as midi data.

Here are some popular examples:

Bitwig Studio

Hydrogen

LMMS

Reaper

Bitwig Studio

Hydrogen

LMMS

Reaper

Ardour

Qtractor

Ableton Live

Cubase

Reason

Pro Tools

Studio One

MuLab

FL Studio

Logic

Garage Band

Sonar

Darkwave Studio

what are plugins?

Third party plugins are ‘vst’, ‘au’ or other files that you can implement into your DAW. Most DAWs provide so called “stock plugins”, these are plugins that always come with your DAW and are natvie mostly.

Most plugins work with mac osx and windows 64bit or 32bit.

preparing projects

Please make sure that all mixer tracks have a label or color coding and all audio and midi clips/tracks (Ableton) or patterns/tracks in the arrangement (FL Studio) are labeled as well.

Make sure to export the projects as a package (FL Studio = zipped loop package, Ableton = Ableton Live Package).

audio file formats

There are two types of audio compression formats in general, “lossless” and “lossy”.We do not accept “lossy” formats in general.

We are accepting the following audio formats.

Midi (single or multitrack)

WAV (16 bit, 24bit, 32bit) (44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96kHz)

AIFF (same as WAV)

(flac)

Not accepted are “mp3” files and extreme sample rates such as 167,4 kHz or 192kHz. These files are not meeting the requirements.